.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 254 118
Rank change year-on-year -48 -136 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 409 444 1,851
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.22% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 5.56% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 375 389 1,770
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,496 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £98,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.80%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,258 7,982 16,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.48% 21.86% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,528 5,973 13,815
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £104,125 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -65 113 £55,000 - 48
London -35 92 £80,000 - 58
South East -50 65 £60,000 +14.29% 60
North West -31 62 £55,000 - 26
Midlands -22 60 £65,000 +23.81% 26
East Midlands -18 46 £65,000 +23.81% 15
South West -19 41 £55,000 -24.14% 16
East of England -26 30 £90,000 +80.00% 27
Yorkshire -71 26 £42,500 -15.00% 13
North East -11 25 £65,000 +44.44% 10
West Midlands -30 14 £60,000 +4.35% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.96%) IIS
3 3 (0.73%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
1 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 240 (58.68%) Azure
2 88 (21.52%) AWS
3 61 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (11.98%) Serverless
5 40 (9.78%) SaaS
6 34 (8.31%) GitHub
7 32 (7.82%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.13%) Azure Functions
11 17 (4.16%) Azure AKS
12 16 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (3.42%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.42%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.18%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Internet
2 2 (0.49%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (37.65%) SQL Server
2 53 (12.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (8.56%) MongoDB
4 31 (7.58%) NoSQL
5 28 (6.85%) Power BI
6 24 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (3.91%) MySQL
8 13 (3.18%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.18%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.98%) Redis
10 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (12.71%) Git
2 9 (2.20%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.98%) JIRA
5 3 (0.73%) NUnit
5 3 (0.73%) Vite
5 3 (0.73%) webpack
6 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.49%) MSTest
7 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 56 (13.69%) Finance
2 45 (11.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.16%) Law
4 15 (3.67%) Games
5 13 (3.18%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.20%) Banking
8 8 (1.96%) Front Office
9 6 (1.47%) Retail
10 5 (1.22%) Advertising
10 5 (1.22%) Marketing
11 4 (0.98%) Automotive
11 4 (0.98%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.49%) Local Government
13 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 289 (70.66%) Developer
2 140 (34.23%) .NET Developer
3 116 (28.36%) Senior
4 92 (22.49%) Software Developer
5 72 (17.60%) C# Developer
6 71 (17.36%) Senior Developer
7 53 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 49 (11.98%) Lead
8 49 (11.98%) Software Engineer
9 43 (10.51%) C# .NET Developer
10 28 (6.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 26 (6.36%) .NET Software Engineer
11 26 (6.36%) Senior Software Developer
11 26 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (6.11%) Lead Developer
13 23 (5.62%) Applications Developer
13 23 (5.62%) React Developer
14 22 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
15 20 (4.89%) Senior .NET Developer
15 20 (4.89%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 409 (100.00%) .NET
2 136 (33.25%) ASP.NET
3 101 (24.69%) React
4 89 (21.76%) .NET Framework
5 65 (15.89%) RESTful
6 58 (14.18%) HTML
7 57 (13.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 57 (13.94%) Blazor
7 57 (13.94%) Entity Framework
8 56 (13.69%) CSS
9 55 (13.45%) AngularJS
10 40 (9.78%) Vue
11 31 (7.58%) Node.js
11 31 (7.58%) REST
12 30 (7.33%) ASP.NET MVC
13 29 (7.09%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (3.42%) Dapper ORM
14 14 (3.42%) HTML5
15 13 (3.18%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.18%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.44%) Sports Betting
7 9 (2.20%) Hedge funds
7 9 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.47%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.98%) Digital TV
9 4 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.98%) Social Network
9 4 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.49%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.18%) VMS
2 7 (1.71%) Windows
3 5 (1.22%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (35.94%) Full-Stack Development
2 139 (33.99%) Agile
3 113 (27.63%) CI/CD
3 113 (27.63%) Software Engineering
4 97 (23.72%) DevOps
5 87 (21.27%) Microservices
6 69 (16.87%) MVC
7 62 (15.16%) Containerisation
8 59 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (12.22%) SDLC
10 43 (10.51%) Clean Code
11 40 (9.78%) OO
12 38 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (9.05%) Collaborative Culture
14 33 (8.07%) Mentoring
15 32 (7.82%) Analytics
16 31 (7.58%) Collaborative Working
17 30 (7.33%) AI
17 30 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
17 30 (7.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 358 (87.53%) C#
2 173 (42.30%) SQL
3 119 (29.10%) JavaScript
4 57 (13.94%) TypeScript
5 28 (6.85%) PowerShell
6 22 (5.38%) Python
7 12 (2.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (2.69%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.47%) Bash
10 5 (1.22%) Java
11 4 (0.98%) Bicep
11 4 (0.98%) Rust
12 3 (0.73%) Erlang
12 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.49%) C++
13 2 (0.49%) PHP
14 1 (0.24%) F#
Qualifications
1 33 (8.07%) Degree
2 14 (3.42%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.69%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.42%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.49%) GDPR
2 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.49%) ITGC
2 2 (0.49%) SLA
2 2 (0.49%) WCAG
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 86 (21.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (16.38%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.82%) Terraform
3 2 (0.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 122 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.71%) Adobe
2 7 (1.71%) Google
3 5 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (1.22%) Facebook
4 2 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (0.49%) Databricks
4 2 (0.49%) Foundry
4 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.49%) YouTube
5 1 (0.24%) Apple
5 1 (0.24%) IBM
5 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle
5 1 (0.24%) Sony
5 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.24%) Workday
5 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!